Middle English Dictionary Entry
Lā̆tī̆n adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | Lā̆tī̆n adj. Also latine, lattin, latina. |
| Etymology | L & OF; also cp. OE (Nhb.) pl. dat. latīnum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of the Latin language, Latin; (b) of a book: written in Latin; (c) Latin-speaking, Latin-writing; ~ chirche, the Western church; (d) of the original Latin-speaking peoples; port ~, the Porta Latina in Rome; ~ lond, Latium.
Associated quotations
a
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)1045 : Forr whase doþ hiss are o þe Tibi propitiatur Affterr þatt itt maȝȝ wel inoh Ben seȝȝd o Latin spæche.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.981 : Thogh the clerk and the clergesse In latin tunge it rede and singe..I schal declare as it is write In Engleissh.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)9044 : Þys ys þe karolle þat þey sunge, As telleþ þe latyn tunge.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)11/15 : Þere on was writen in Ebru greu & latyn lettres þat seyden þus.
- c1425 Wycl.Concord.in Spec.43 (Roy 17.B.1)272 : Þe Englisch word which þis Latyn word heres signyfieþ.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.21.61 : 'Zodia' in langage of Grek sowneth 'bestes' in Latyn tunge.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)337/3 : He knew not a lettre nor cuthe not vnderstand a lattyn wurd.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)256 : Latyn speche: latinum.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)29b/a : Þese þre latyn wordis, þat is to seye, humerus, homoplata, & spatula, ben al oon þing.
- a1500 Rolle Psalter (Wor F.172)15 : They that knowen nat the latyn, bi the Inglissh thei may come to many latyn wordis.
b
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)pref.13 : Amminadab..iss nemmnedd O Latin boc Spontaneus.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8047 : Latin boc uss seȝȝþ full wel Þatt tatt mann iss forrwarrȝedd.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.2895 : Þe wardis þat he makid hadde Þe same day, as seith þe latyn boke.
- (c1450) Let.Oxf.in OHS 35285 : He..bequethyd unto us..all þe latyn bokes þt he had.
c
- a1425 KAlex.(LinI 150)2186 : Þis batail..Y haue hit to colour Borowed of þe Latyn autour.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)3a/b : Þerfor þer bene fourefold condicions þe which bene taken here after Arnold, most eloquent latyn man [*Ch.(2): latynistre; L latinatorem].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)66b/b : Costume of latyne men [L latinorum] haþ for to calle fracture a solucion of a bone.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)176b/b : Þe degreez of medicinez may more liȝtly be founden be þai ordeyned vnder þe cathologo, i. ordre or noumbre, of þe a.b.c. of latine menne.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)introd.38 : Suffise to the these trewe conclusions in Englissh as wel as sufficith..to the Latyn folk in Latyn.
- a1450(c1405) Purvey Determ.(Trin-C B.14.50)176/224 : Þei han in Ebrew þe Bible, & þei ben more actif [in] þe olde lawe þane any Latyn man comonli.
- c1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1483 : Tho saugh I..The Latyn poet, Virgile.
- a1500 *Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)172/22 : Long agoo there was a newe statute of the Latyn Chirche, which shall departe from þe ordre of holy mariage vnto the dignite of preesthode vndir the colour of clennesse.
- a1500 *Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)173/1 : This fust [read: furst] statute departed the Chirche of Grece from Latyn [vr. the Latyn].
d
- c1300 SLeg.John (LdMisc 108)60 : Bi-fore a ȝat..Þat men cleopeden 'þe porte latin'.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)8 : Porta latina is alsoo a grete ȝate of rome and is clepid latina for þat wey goth on to þat lond þat was called þe latyn lond þer be gan first þe latyn tunge.